Programme staff also work with teachers in the government schools to help them understand the purposes and benefits of MTB BE and to learn how to use Pashai as an added language of instruction while teaching the Pashto national school curriculum.
How do you supervise classrooms?
Programme supervisors are supposed to visit each MTB BE class once a week. Programme staff and supervisors meet twice a month so supervisors can share problems and discuss progress. The meetings provide opportunities for staff and supervisors to learn from and support each other.
Programme staff also visit the MTB BE classrooms regularly.
How do you evaluate students’ progress?
Pre-school students take an exam at the end of the two-year pre-school programme. Students who attend the after-school Pashai courses take an exam at the end of each term( four times a year.)
What results have you seen to this point?
1,974 Pashai children completed the original Pashai literacy classes between 1999 and 2014. Half of them were girls. In those same years, 4,060 young people and adults graduated from 203 Pashto literacy classes. Half of this group was female.
Since 2012, 1000 Pashai girls and boys have enrolled in pre-primary classes. In 2009 the Pashai programme was awarded UNESCO’ s Confucius Literacy Prize. 6
Pashai community representative accepts UNESCO Confucius Literacy Prize at the United Nations, 2009. © Serve, Afghanistan
6 See“ The Winners of the UNESCO International Literacy Prizes 2009”, pages 7 and 8. http:// unesdoc. unesco. org / images / 0018 / 001838 / 183809e. pdf
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